Tag: Insurrection

Today, I rose and traveled from Maryland to Washington, D.C., to bear witness to a racially motivated insurrection. This was the coldest day I had experienced since I was a 3rd-year law student at the University of Southern California, and my parents still lived in Minnesota. The heavens had opened ...

Some states want former president Donald J. Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot. They’re trying frustratingly to navigate the Constitution to do it. Trump whines free speech! His detractors, Insurrection! What’s the point of the 14th Amendment? No one can or won’t enf...

Sometimes, when advocating for a position, someone will argue something that is absolutely right and yet also absolutely besides the point. These arguments sound good and are often undisputable, but when subjected to any level of scrutiny, they prove to either be irrelevant to, or actually counter-p...

The events of that fateful day will forever be etched into the annals of American history. Thousands of individuals, fueled by anger and conspiracy theories, breached the Capitol’s security barriers, causing chaos and leaving destruction in their wake. In the ensuing hours, the world watched a...

I want to thank the more than 140 members of the House. Those are warriors. They're over there working like you've never seen before. Studying, talking, actually going all the way back, studying the roots of the Constitution, because they know we have the right to send a bad vote that was il...